"It's alright, it's alright, go ahead and smoke," Zhou Xuan replied, shaking his head.
The three men behind were in a car nearly 200 meters away, so they had no suspicion about the taxi Zhou Xuan was in. Zhou Xuan also detected that Yu Qi was lying perfectly fine in the back seat of the Honda, still unable to move. However, Zhou Xuan detected that Yu Qi's eyes moved slightly, and she opened them to look at the movement in the car. Her mind was clear, and she knew that she had been kidnapped, but she just couldn't move. This was Zhou Xuan's deliberate arrangement.
One of the men stopped a private car, a BYD F6, and the driver leaned out and asked, "What's the matter?"
The man immediately took out two hundred yuan from his pocket and handed it to his car window, saying, "Our car is out of gas. Could you give us some gas? Just enough to get us to the gas station three miles ahead. I'll give you two hundred yuan, okay?"
The driver was delighted and immediately took the money, saying, "Sure, sure. I happen to have a water bottle filled with liquor in my trunk, and a hose too. I'll give you some."
After saying that, he opened the car door and got out of the car. Then he took out a water bottle and a water hose from the trunk, opened the gas filler cap, inserted the hose, squatted down, and sucked hard on the hose. With a "whoosh," the fuel in the tank flowed out of the hose opening.
The driver quickly shoved the hose into the glue bottle, which could hold five jin (2.5 kg) of liquor. Through its white, semi-transparent surface, the gasoline level was rising. After filling it more than halfway, the driver pulled the hose out and said, "Alright, more than enough to get to the gas station up ahead."
The three men in the Honda car naturally didn't care whether they made a profit or a loss on the 300 yuan deal. One of them quickly poured gasoline into the gas tank from the water bottle, then closed the cap. The three of them got back into the car, with two men still flanking Yuqi on either side, and the other driving.
With fuel on, the car started immediately.
Zhou Xuan quickly said to the driver who was smoking in his car, "Driver, be careful, that car behind us has started moving. We need to follow it, but we can't let him see us."
The driver nodded. Although he didn't know what the people in the two cars were doing, Zhou Xuan didn't seem like a bad person. Besides, he was alone, while there were three men in the car behind him. Obviously, they couldn't be going to kidnap someone or anything.
At this moment, the driver started the car and drove ahead, then said, "Sir, why don't we go to the gas station first? It's fine there, since the car behind us will definitely need to refuel anyway. We can wait at the gas station first, so they won't easily spot us."
“Okay, let’s do it your way,” Zhou Xuan nodded, then added, “as long as they don’t find out.”
Zhou Xuan then focused his supernatural power into a beam and used all his strength to probe the Honda car.
The man driving the car was puzzled and annoyed, saying, "I just filled up with two hundred yuan worth of gas this afternoon, how come it's all gone now? It's only been less than three hours, and we haven't driven much in the meantime. Could the gas tank be leaking? But I just got out and checked it visually, and the gas tank seems fine. How could it be gone?"
I was completely baffled, but I had just filled up half a can of gas, which should cover at least five miles, so getting to the gas station shouldn't be a problem.
Zhou Xuan had been using his supernatural abilities to surround the Honda car. Whenever there was any change or unforeseen event, he could take care of the car in time, making it impossible for them to leave his control. The reason he didn't take care of them now was that he wanted to know why these people kidnapped people and where their hideout was. It wouldn't be too late to take action after he knew everything.
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Volume One: The Lotus Buds Just Begin to Emerge, Chapter 454: Why the Haste to Fight Each Other?
Chapter 454 Why the Haste to Kill Each Other?
After filling the Honda with half a can of gas, I drove to a gas station and filled it up completely.
The taxi Zhou Xuan was in was following behind. At this moment, Zhou Xuan showed no sign of urgency. The three people were still two hundred meters away, and they did not notice or realize that someone was following them.
Of course, their main concern was that no one would be able to know about their actions beforehand, and secondly, they were so annoyed by the sudden and inexplicable lack of fuel that they didn't think of anything else.
After refueling, the car drove onto Yanjiang Road, then circled around halfway to Haibin Road, and drove along the coast.
Zhou Xuan saw that the place they were going to was very remote. Although it was next to the sea, it was full of cliffs and precipices that few people went to. It was not far from where Zhou Xuan's fishing boat had docked.
Seeing that very few people frequented this area, Zhou Xuan feared that following them would arouse suspicion. After thinking for a moment, he immediately used his special ability to convert and absorb 99% of the gasoline in the other car. If he went forward, he could only travel about half a mile at most. Moreover, there was only this one road in this area, so Zhou Xuan was not worried about losing them.
At the turn, Zhou Xuan stopped the car, gave the driver another two hundred yuan, and said, "Driver, I'll get off here, thank you."
The driver was already a little scared to be in such a place, and on top of that, he was following someone. Who knew if the person in his car was in cahoots with others to rob the people in that car, or if they had planned to rob him in advance?
The driver was filled with suspicion and fear, but when he saw that Zhou Xuan did nothing else after stopping the car, but instead gave him an extra two hundred yuan and got out, he felt relieved. It seemed that the young man had no intention of robbing him.
After the driver turned around and drove away, Zhou Xuan quickly ran forward, condensing his supernatural power into a beam and probing ahead. The roads in this area also meandered along the coast, unlike the straight roads along the coast in the Fushou Village area.
The Honda's gasoline could only last for about 500 meters, so Zhou Xuan ran along the road for about 400 to 500 meters before his supernatural ability detected that the Honda was stopped in the middle of the road behind the bend.
The three men were angrily venting their frustrations on each other.
What kind of gas did you use? Over 300 yuan worth of gas only got you half a mile?
"What can we do now? There aren't even any cars passing by, and it's getting dark. Even fewer cars will come at night, so it'll be difficult to wait. Besides, what are we doing? How can we let anyone see us?"
"Damn it, I'm going to go back and beat those guys at the gas station to a pulp..."
"You think you're the boss and everyone has to listen to you? You have no evidence whatsoever, and you're going to go to the gas station and beat someone up?"
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Zhou Xuan immediately crouched down and crept over, stopping when he was about 50 or 60 meters away from the three people. At this distance, all three of them, including Yu Qi who was unable to move in the car, were completely under his control, so he was not in a hurry. What Zhou Xuan wanted to know was who was behind this, or whether it was just a simple kidnapping and extortion case.
The three men exchanged a few angry words, then one of them said, "Stop arguing! We haven't done our work yet. Hurry up and get it done, or we won't get the other half of the money."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Xuan immediately understood that there was someone behind the three of them, and it was not a simple kidnapping case. He then became even more careful not to make a sound.
Then the man said, "Ah Cheng, Lao San and I will deal with this woman. You go to the gas station and get a can of gas."
Ah Cheng was taken aback and said, "I have to walk all the way to the gas station?"
The man who was clearly in charge said again, "You don't want to walk, you want to take a car? You can imagine that when a car comes this way, we're trying to avoid it, and you want to go up to it? Should we call 110 and say that the car here is broken down?"
Ah Cheng gave an awkward smile, then raised both hands and said, "Okay, okay, I'll go, I'll go."
Acheng took out the oil can he had just used from the trunk, then went to the car door, opened it, looked at the unconscious Yuqi, and said regretfully, "What a pity, this tender and juicy girl is going to sink to the bottom of the sea alive? I say Yuxiang is too ruthless, even killing his own sister?"
The leader immediately shouted in a deep voice, "Ah Cheng, shut up. Don't you know the rules for us?"
Ah Cheng looked around before sheepishly saying, "Boss, I know I can't say this, but it's just the three of us brothers here, there are no outsiders. If there were other people around, I certainly wouldn't say anything."
The leader snorted and said, "Your mouth will get you into trouble sooner or later."
The third brother chimed in, "Big brother, let it go. We know Acheng's personality. He may be a chatterbox, but he knows his limits when it comes to things we brothers can't talk about, and he's never revealed them."
Ah Cheng quickly replied, "Yes, yes, boss, third brother, I'm going to buy some oil."